Jammu Tawi, Jan 23: A group of people representing Kisan Tehreek and few leftist bodies today staged a protest at Panjtirthi chowk facing the gate of Raj Bhawan in Jammu. Protesters raised the slogans in support of farmers protesting on the borders of Delhi against the agricultural laws and demanded these be rolled back at an earliest.
Kishore Kumar, a senior leader of the Kisan Tehreek said that the Supreme Court had stayed agricultural laws but the government had not.
He said that the Union government has been discussing its benefits in eight rounds of talks and hasn't accepted farmers' demands.
“The government is also cheating the farmers in the name of doubling their income, but farmers know instead of selling the product of the farmers in the markets, the big business will buy it at exorbitant prices,” he said.
Zahoor Ahmed Rather, who was part of the protest, said that the government intended that the farmers would be tired and would be forced to end the protest.
“Supreme Court is not happy with these laws, so it has stayed it. But farmers are objecting to the committee formed by the Supreme Court because we know those who are part of the committee are already supporters of these agricultural laws,” Rather said.
Senior CPI (M) leader M Y Tarigami who was also part of the protest said that the government must roll back the new agricultural laws at an earliest.
He said that these laws came to fore without any debate and discussion and farmers were not taken into confidence.
He added that farmers across India have one voice and won't go back till these laws won't be rolled back.
